Packer Contract Job Trends in England

Hashicorp Packer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Packer skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 503 478
Rank change year-on-year +32 -25 +12
Contract jobs citing Packer 41 25 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.076% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.94% 0.56% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 20 83
10th Percentile £418 £453 £443
25th Percentile £423 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £571 £576
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% -0.82% -4.00%
75th Percentile £620 £725 £663
90th Percentile £625 £938 £675
UK median daily rate £600 £593 £576
% change year-on-year +1.27% +2.86% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £65.41
25th Percentile - - £69.58
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £76.53

All Systems Management Skills
England

Packer falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,357 4,498 6,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.68% 13.66% 14.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,888 3,077 4,451
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £713 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 53 158
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.10 £18.43
25th Percentile £21.37 £24.18 £26.06
Median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -21.95% +114.35%
75th Percentile £63.49 £62.50 £75.38
90th Percentile £76.48 £74.00 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.62% -30.00% +130.03%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Packer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Packer in England

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer

Packer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Packer in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the England region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +24 24 £600 +7.38% 3
South East +24 5 £435 - 1
North of England -11 4 £600 +9.09%
North West - 3 £600 -
South West +27 2 £500 -23.08% 1
North East -1 1 £425 -22.73%
East of England - 1 £500 -
Packer
UK

Packer
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (39.02%) nginx
2 14 (34.15%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 27 (65.85%) AWS
2 22 (53.66%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (21.95%) Entra ID
3 9 (21.95%) GitHub
4 6 (14.63%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (14.63%) Azure
5 5 (12.20%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (12.20%) IaaS
5 5 (12.20%) OpenShift
5 5 (12.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (9.76%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (7.32%) Serverless
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.88%) Route 53
9 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (24.39%) DNS
2 4 (9.76%) DHCP
3 3 (7.32%) SSH
4 1 (2.44%) Internet
4 1 (2.44%) NAS
4 1 (2.44%) SAN
4 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) MongoDB
1 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (12.20%) Redis
2 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 18 (43.90%) Git
2 14 (34.15%) JIRA
3 11 (26.83%) GitLab
4 9 (21.95%) Jenkins
5 3 (7.32%) Terragrunt
6 1 (2.44%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (24.39%) Public Sector
2 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Finance
4 1 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (36.59%) DevOps Engineer
1 15 (36.59%) Lead
2 11 (26.83%) Technical Leader
3 4 (9.76%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) Lead DevOps
3 4 (9.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Senior
5 2 (4.88%) Active Directory Administrator
5 2 (4.88%) Administrator
5 2 (4.88%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (4.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Network Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) Kafka
2 10 (24.39%) Keycloak
3 9 (21.95%) YAML
4 5 (12.20%) cloud-init
4 5 (12.20%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (9.76%) AWS CDK
5 4 (9.76%) Node.js
6 1 (2.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) PKI
2 3 (7.32%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) CMDB
4 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (70.73%) Linux
2 6 (14.63%) Unix
2 6 (14.63%) Windows
3 5 (12.20%) CentOS
3 5 (12.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (9.76%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (2.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (56.10%) DevOps
2 21 (51.22%) Agile
2 21 (51.22%) CI/CD
3 16 (39.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (26.83%) Containerisation
4 11 (26.83%) Observability
4 11 (26.83%) Technical Leadership
5 9 (21.95%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (14.63%) Immutable Infrastructure
7 5 (12.20%) Scrum
8 4 (9.76%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (7.32%) DevSecOps
9 3 (7.32%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 3 (7.32%) Event-Driven
9 3 (7.32%) Static Application Security Testing
9 3 (7.32%) Threat Modelling
10 2 (4.88%) SDLC
10 2 (4.88%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 16 (39.02%) Python
2 13 (31.71%) Bash
3 8 (19.51%) Go
4 6 (14.63%) Shell Script
5 5 (12.20%) PowerShell
6 4 (9.76%) Bicep
7 3 (7.32%) Perl
7 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.88%) Java
9 1 (2.44%) Groovy
9 1 (2.44%) MATLAB
9 1 (2.44%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (65.85%) SC Cleared
1 27 (65.85%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.44%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (39.02%) Docker
2 5 (12.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.44%) Lustre
3 1 (2.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (87.80%) Terraform
2 28 (68.29%) Kubernetes
3 19 (46.34%) Ansible
4 14 (34.15%) Consul
5 8 (19.51%) Grafana
5 8 (19.51%) Prometheus
6 5 (12.20%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (4.88%) FortiGate
7 2 (4.88%) Kibana
8 1 (2.44%) Argo
8 1 (2.44%) Fluentd
8 1 (2.44%) Nessus
8 1 (2.44%) vRealize
8 1 (2.44%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (2.44%) yum
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Splunk
2 5 (12.20%) Okta
2 5 (12.20%) Red Hat
3 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.32%) VMware
5 1 (2.44%) CyberArk